Stick Puppet Theater

Made a shoe-box stick-puppet theater.  I love ideas like this, as they are lazy and awesome at the same time.  I haven't run the numbers yet, but I think the investment was approximately zero dollars, some tape, some paper, and some recycling we had sitting around, and now we have open-ended fun-times available any given evening.

Wait'll you see us do Macbeth, it'll blow your mind.

Dry-Erase Fridge Puzzles

1. Snip puzzles from paper.
2. Peel plumbing-ad magnets from phone books.
3. Affix puzzles to magnets with clear packing tape.

These look a little wonky as they're a couple years old, but trust me, they're way cooler than fridge poetry.

Ghetto DIY

Another old project I just dug up photos for.  It's an old PowerBook 1400cs I repurposed as a digital frame.  It was really easy on these models; a few screws and the screen flipped right around, making the base the stand.  I put it up on the shelf over my TV.  The laptop was a donation, and I think with parts this ran around $10 or so.  It didn't come with a power brick but I had an extra laying around (which might say something about me.)  I put OS 8 on there with a JPEGView slideshow at launch and automatic reboot if the power went out.  With a wireless card and shared folders I could manage it over the network.  The only real downside was the lower-quality screen on the 1400cs vs. the 1400c.

I got it with the screen already flipped (bonus!)

We can rebuild it, we have the technology.

Phase 1: assembly

Phase 2: ???

Phase 3: profit!

P.S. I don't have that couch any more, so don't worry.

Old PowerBook

Digging through my old photos, I also found this.  A fun mod for the old G3 PowerBooks (this one's a Wall Street) was to remove the rubber stuff from the metal with some solvent and a scraper.  After I had the goo off I did some half-OK etching with some awl I had laying around.  I took the case apart and packed some clay inside the Apple logo to make it look like someone was peeking out.  Not sure if I liked the result.  It's OK, I guess.

Peek-a-boo!